[Avodah] How much is an Omer?

[Ben Waxman]

There are many examples. Just last week I went to a shiyur which dealt with
this subject. To sum up: We normally think of parshanut as something done
outside of the Tanach. We read the Chumash, Neviim, etc and learn the
Midrash, Rashi, other commentators. However the Tanach has internal
parshanut as well. The clearest example is Divrei Hayamim, which expands,
explains stories given in other books. This type of parshanut is "long
distance" parshanut. There is another type of parshanut called "parshanut
panim" where the Torah or Nach gives an immediate explanation of a word.

I have a sheet here with 18 examples. I will give a couple.

Breishit 14: 2: waged war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of
Gomorrah, Shinav king of Admah, Shemever king of Tzevoyim, and the king of
Bela (now Tzoar). The Torah explains that the word Bela is Tzoar.
Presumeably that when the Torah was written, no one would know where or what
was Bela and it gave the contemporary name.

Shoftim 15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he
went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam. The phrase hip and
thigh is explained to mean - great slaughter.

Ben
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> R' Akiva Miller asked:
>
> > b) Are there any other examples of where the Torah goes out of its way
to define a word?